[Dovecot] Locking strategy?

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

Hello!

I finally got dovecot to work with pine. I will post some instructions how 
to configure dovecot, Thunderbird and pine later on.

One thing is left:
A telnet to port 143 and /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap behaves 
slightly different and a consistent configuration for subscription 
folders is not possible (looks like it has a different base directory, in 
the first case ~/ as configured in /etc/dovecot.conf and in the second case 
~/Mail (it is not set in the environment))

/usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND 
UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as userx
1 lsub "" "~/Mail/*"
1 OK Lsub completed.

Mozilla: with or without ssl
3 lsub "" "~/Mail/*"
* LSUB () "/" "~/Mail/Drafts"
* LSUB () "/" "~/Mail/Templates"
* LSUB () "/" "~/Mail/Trash"
3 OK Lsub completed.

Through Port 143:
1 LIST "" %
returns list from ~/

Through command /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap
1 LIST "" %
returns list from ~/Mail

Maybe this comes from this TODO (from file TODO):
- dovecot --exec-mail imap doesn't set MAIL environment?

Can this be fixed easily? Where does ~/Mail come from?

Thank you for the answer.

Ciao,
Gerhard

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:06 +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 13:54 +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>>>> But I don't think that locking works well. In pine I get the following
>>>> error messages:
>>>> Unexpected changes to folder (try restarting)
>>>
>>> Why do you let Pine use the mbox files directly instead of going through
>>> IMAP? That'll probably give you faster mailbox opening times as well.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, in theory a good idea. But i don't want to enter a password again
>> when I want to access my mailbox when I'm logged in through ssh.
>>
>> Is there a secure possibility through imap with pine without entering a
>> password on the local host?
>
> Yes. Pine is able to use "ssh host imap" method to start the imap
> server. Maybe that's configurable somewhere? So you could replace that
> with: dovecot --exec-mail imap
>
> If it's not configurable, then make a script to the location it tries to
> start, and make it execute dovecot.
>
>